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Raizel

Feminine · “little rose”

1953high 2024
#2645 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare65 girls in 2025

Raizel is a little rose in Yiddish — royz with a diminutive — and Yiddish naming used flowers freely.

How old is the name Raizel?

Raizel first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Raizel alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,700 people named Raizel are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Raizel most popular?

Raizel peaked in 2024, reaching #2099 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 546 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Raizel

Yiddish naming built freely on ordinary words — Reyzl from a rose, Feygl from a bird, Goldе from gold, Sheindel from beautiful — and these traveled with Ashkenazi families across Europe and to America. Raizel is current in Orthodox communities and appears in the American registers in current use.

Meaning

little rose

From the Yiddish royz, 'rose', cognate with the German Rose, with the diminutive -el. Reyzl and Raizel are the forms. Yiddish naming used flower and color words directly. The etymology is documented.

How the name formed

  1. royz
  2. Reyzl
  3. Raizel

Related forms: רייזל · Reizel · Röschen

Pronouncing Raizel

RAY-zel

Two syllables, stress on the first. Yiddish says it the same way.

Nicknames for Raizel

Moderate

RaizyThe affectionate stretch, widely used in Orthodox families
RoseThe English equivalent, and a name in its own right with a large record
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1953–202591460916519532025

US babies named Raizel per year from 1953 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#20991950s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1953
Most girls named
202491 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2099reached in 2024
Change vs 2024
−28.6%65 in 2025, from 91
Raizel sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2024, with 91 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Raizel in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • רייזל in Yiddish — transliteration
  • Reizel in English — spelling variant
  • Röschen in German — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, California.

Raizels among us

1,700

people named Raizel are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Raizel

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Raizel

#2645
Raizel on the 2025 chart
#888
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Raizel went to 65 girls in 2025, but Rayzel is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 888th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,757 places above the chart.

  • Raizel65
  • Rayzel7

About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Raizel itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Julieanne test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raizel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Julieanne climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Julieanne's path sketches the road Raizel is walking now.

40%chance Raizel will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Raizel, aligned on its peakJulieanne· peak 1987not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+40 yrsJulieanne · #14407Raizel today
Raizel today is about where Julieanne stood in 1988 — 1 year past a #2098-sized peak. By 2003, Julieanne had settled around #4988.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Raizel sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Raizel is headed

19532030

US babies named Raizel per year, 1953 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Raizel looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 26% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.

Rising+26% by 2030projected around #2,342 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Raizel beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Raizel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Raizelthis name65#2645Caliana65#2645Aaira65#2645Wylie65#2645Henrietta65#2645

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That Yiddish naming used flowers and colors directly is a first-rate practice.
  • The little-rose meaning is transparent and warm.
  • Rose is available as an English equivalent with a large record.
What to consider
  • It reads as specifically Orthodox Ashkenazi.
  • Several spellings are in circulation.
  • It will need spelling out every time.

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Frequently asked

How many Raizels are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Raizel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Raizel?
Raizel is the most-used spelling in US records — 65 of the 72 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Rayzel.
How popular is the name Raizel in 2025?
Raizel ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Raizel?
About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Raizel — 65 in all.
Will my child share the name Raizel with classmates?
Raizel will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Raizel

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Caliana#2645 · Aaira#2645 · Wylie#2645 · Henrietta#2645 · Mahogany#2645 · Amaiah#2645 · Charlize#2645 · Esra#2645

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